Ap­prox­i­mate­ly 1,040,011 cit­i­zens are reg­is­tered to vote in to­mor­row's gen­er­al elec­tion. Of the num­ber el­i­gi­ble to ex­er­cise the fran­chise at the coun­try's 2,156 polling sta­tions, ap­prox­i­mate­ly 6,943 peo­ple have been reg­is­tered as new vot­ers by the Elec­tions and Bound­aries Com­mis­sion (EBC). In 2007, 993,051 peo­ple were list­ed as el­i­gi­ble, but on­ly 653,882 availed them­selves of the op­por­tu­ni­ty. Com­par­ing the 2007 vot­ing list to this year's to­tal vot­ing el­i­gi­bles, the EBC has seen an in­crease of 46,960 elec­tors over a 30-month pe­ri­od.

An EBC re­vised list dat­ed May 7, 2010, shows the Diego Mar­tin West seat of in­cum­bent Dr Kei­th Row­ley hav­ing the largest vot­er pop­u­la­tion, with 28,364 list­ed. To­ba­go East, which was held by Peo­ple's Na­tion­al Move­ment Ren­nie Du­mas, who has since been re­placed by can­di­date Gizel Thomas-Roberts, has the small­est num­ber, with 20,424 reg­is­tered vot­ers. Fol­low­ing close­ly be­hind the Diego Mar­tin West elec­toral dis­trict is Cou­va North, with 27,682 vot­ers, while Diego Mar­tin North/West is the third high­est with an elec­torate of 27,647.

Com­par­ing the old EBC list dat­ed Feb­ru­ary 2, 2010, it showed that 1,033,068 were ini­tial­ly el­i­gi­ble. How­ev­er, with the EBC's ten-day reg­u­lar­i­sa­tion sta­tus last month, close to 7,000 were added, tak­ing the fig­ure to 1,040,011. The re­vised list shows al­so that of the 1,472 polling di­vi­sions in the coun­try, Port-of-Spain South has the most di­vi­sions, num­ber­ing 63, fol­lowed by Port-of-Spain North/St Ann's East with 58. Ch­agua­nas East, which was won by Mustapha Ab­dul-Hamid in the last gen­er­al elec­tion, has 19 polling di­vi­sions, the low­est num­ber. (SH)